Hi Takashi,
On Sat, 2023-12-30 at 17:59 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Thanks, I guess I'll take this series later for 6.8 unless any objection is raised from reviewers.
But, I'd like to hear clarifications of some points beforehand:
- Did we get consensus about the ACPI HID? I didn't follow the previous thread completely.
The INT8866 is a (wrong) PNP ID, that should only be used by the owner "Interphase Corporation". Intel has also mistakenly used the INT PNP prefix in the past, and now TI/leNovo.
Since those models have been already in the market for quite some time, we'd have to accept "INT8866", I'm afraid. But it's still very important to know whether a similar problem can be avoided in future.
- Will be the firmware files upstreamed to linux-firmware tree later? Otherwise users will have significant difficulties.
Shenghao sent the two files to linux-firmware@kernel.org a few days ago, but I think the "Allegedly GPLv2+ ... Found in hex form in kernel source." Licence needs to be fixed before acceptance.
But even if it is not included in the linux-firmware package, it is easier for users to put two files in place per OS installation than patching the kernel.
Regards, Gergo